I don't know how long it took for me to wake up.

With a bit of retching, I spit out the yellow paper note.

I'm not dead yet!

I'm alive.

When I woke up, I was already lying on the ground, my clothes had been dried, and because I was defenseless, I was hit by the person behind me in the water, and I woke up dizzy.

It's not just the body that's dizzy, it's also the brain.

I don't understand, what are those two pretending to be water monkeys, and if they are not people, what will they be?

Only now, where am I?

When I was awake, I only remembered that the two "people" had been carrying me in one direction, but I couldn't remember whether they were going upstream or downstream of the river, although when the two "people" were unprepared, I looked around me and could tell that the two "people" were going downstream along the river by the direction of the river.

But after being knocked unconscious by that "person", how long has he walked forward, and he doesn't know anything, where is he now? How far is it from the bank of the river where you fell into the water? None of this is known.

I tried to get myself up and observe the shape around me.

As soon as I looked up, I saw the steel cage in front of me.

The cage is not big, only for four or five people, and each branch of the cage is as thick as a thumb.

It turned out that those two "people" locked me in an iron cage.

Looking further back, I saw the situation here.

It was like a cave, and it was very spacious, the size of five or six houses, and just above the cave there was a big hole that could accommodate people, and the sun shone in, so that although it was not visible, it was not so dark.

In this cave, in front of me, there were seven or eight iron cages of the same size, and in each cage, there were three or four people, some adults and some children.

In one cage, there were only a lot of bones left, and in some of the cages the corpses were rotting and emitting a foul stench, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a man or a woman.

In the cage closer to me, there were several people lying silently, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

Could it be that the bodies of the people who fell into the water and died in Gaojiatun'er were all put in cages?

Grass and human life!

I couldn't help but feel angry.

I stood up and took two steps forward to see better, but as soon as I lifted my foot, I tripped over something and almost fell.

When I looked down, beside me, there was an old man with half-white hair lying on the ground, dirty, with a fist-sized wound on his forehead, his face was covered with dried blood, he couldn't see his appearance clearly, his clothes were shabby, and he exuded a foul smell, I don't know how long he had been here. If it weren't for his heaving chest and abdomen, I would have thought he was a dead man.

Tripping over my leg, the man woke up, but he didn't open his eyes, didn't move, just squeezed a sentence out of his mouth:

"Child, it's useless, don't move, save some effort."

I didn't hear what the old man said at all, so I quickly squatted down, ignoring the stench on the old man's body, picked up the old man's head, leaned over and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle, uncle, are you okay?"

The old man opened his eyes, still weak, like a dead corpse, and looked at me for a long time, before he puffed up his strength and said weakly:

"Child, it's useless, it's going to be even more uncomfortable if you move around like this for a while, lie down quickly, save your strength, I'm fine, I'm going to die anyway, it's useless."

"Uncle, what's going on? Who hurt you like this? What the hell is going on here? ”

I don't know where this place is, and I don't know who the uncle in front of me is, but no matter who it is, abusing a defenseless old man like this, is this a human thing? It's really not as good as a beast.

"Uncle, I will find a way to get you out, no matter who it is, I will definitely not let them go."

"Child, it's useless, we're going to die sooner or later."

Uncle said several times in a row, it's useless, sooner or later he will die.

What did Uncle go through?

There is no desire to survive at all.

"Uncle, don't give up so easily, when I find the exit, I'll take you out."

"Those who can't walk, none of us can walk. They took us in, didn't give us anything to eat, didn't let us die easily, only gave us water to drink, and I had no strength at all, so I could only lie down, motionless, not like this, to be a living dead, and now even if I opened the door and let me go, I would not be able to stand up, let alone get out of here. ”

Don't give food, don't let you die, living dead, what kind of "people" would do such a tragic thing?

And what about the two "people"? Where did the two "people" who carried themselves in go? Could it be that all this was done by those two "people"?

"Uncle, don't worry, even if you don't have the strength to go out, if I don't go back for so long, my friends can't find me, they will definitely think that something happened to me, and they will definitely find ways to save me."

"It's useless, even if someone comes, they put their lives in vain, how can people fight ghosts?"

How can a man fight a ghost?

I hear you clearly!

Uncle said there are ghosts!

There are ghosts in this cave!

I was shocked, where did the ghost come from?

Where did the ghost come from, the water monkey, isn't it also a pretend?

Could it be that those two "people" are ghosts?

I was taken aback!

It's not because these two ghosts scared me, but because I finally know the truth of the matter!

How did I ignore this problem.

I only thought of water monkeys being faked, how could I not think that ghosts can also pretend to be water monkeys?

If it's really two ghosts, then it all makes sense.

Only a ghost can stay underwater for that long without drowning.

Only ghosts are so afraid of the fat man's yellow paper talisman.

As for why the ghosts were exposed to the sun and pulled me into the water in broad daylight, maybe it was because of the black paint they had on them.

They are the only ghosts, and the unanswered question that has been bothering me has finally been given a reasonable explanation:

So many people in Gaojiatun'er were dragged into the water by the "water monkey", no one was seen, no corpse was seen, but why was there only Gao Yuan, the corpse floated up, and the soul was not taken away, and was caught by black and white impermanence.

Now it seems that it was the impermanence of black and white that saved Gao Yuan's soul.

It is precisely because the impermanence master happened to pass by here, the two ghosts who pretended to be water monkeys, although they drowned Gao Yuan, but they didn't dare to make a move, so they could only let go of Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan's soul just came out of the water, and was just caught by the impermanence master.

But then another question arises, why are they doing this?

(End of chapter)